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‘I feel like a new guy’: Kentucky lineman’s appetite for success outweighs joys of junk food

Adrian Middleton does his best to avoid eye contact.

There’s a lot of temptation wrapped up in the white package with the orange oval on it.

And the Kentucky defensive lineman has dropped 25 pounds by looking away from those white chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cups in their various forms.

“They’ve got the Reese’s milkshake and ice cream things,” said Middleton, shaking his head. “I was tearing those up, too. Now if I want something like that now, I get a small or a mini. I’m just trying to eat better.”

The peanut butter-centered, white chocolate goodness wasn’t the only enticement for Middleton, who is down to a svelte 275 pounds after giving up much of what he loved this offseason.